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75th Year No. 167 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, March 29, 1983 2 Sections - 14 Pages 25 Cents
Wtill -
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Mission impossible? MSlu 4fre s ,
Alliance members want to pull plug fiK' 7 i
on the Callaway nuclear power plant WJ$ m sMl
We are the Crawdada strong l& Hal'l P$ M l!
And fight for right against the plight tifrcfll Kffi Of cancer and the nuclear waste. aaBHBa from a Crawdad Alliance song nffiBSfffBliroSw
By Ranee Tawa and Betsy Krause BjbSHIHmWBH
Valiant Yates proudly sang these words after marching 2Vi miles HBmHMBHfflpBP
to her destination in front of the looming cooling tower of the Calla-- ggBBjgggpiMmlmW
way County nuclear power plant. The 68- year-- old Fulton woman MHfcMMBywS
fears radiation from the plant will contaminate her cattle's fiSHCTP Daniel Groveman, 14, of Columbia, says nuclear power is dan-- H88Ba
gerous and that he and his peers should learn about it at school. mmM He joined other hikers in the bitter winds and trudged the last Jpp five miles of the 15- mi- le walk from Fulton to the plant SBSS1' With about 40 others hiking from Columbia, St. Louis and lPii Fulton, Mrs. Yates and Daniel had their reasons for following MumMMW
an alliance member carrying an American flag Sunday. A MMMMwi bed- she- et sign reading " NO NUKES" and the flag signified WFWl " The flag was brought with us because some people may TN- W- M
be confused about how we feel about our country," said the jtl $ j r0,0iM'.--
flag bearer, Byron Clemens, 31, of St. Louis. " Personally, j?;- - j 4Mwf?' I feel this is one of the most patriotic things we can do. We $ ff, W 7 3' MMM are concerned about protecting the health of the people , J, v r jJ fffMM- - J
andtte environment" jl? fSI- pfc-: About 10 patrol cars from the Missouri State Highway -- T'tt- M tWfT' Patrol and CaUaway County Sheriff's office staked out ; .- W- ' JfTteiiii'
the hikers' route. There appeared to be as many po- - p , ft ;' ffi ' ifflfej2f Sfo HJ- - & yH- 47r- f:
hcemen and Union Electric security guards as r t i'j Yw$ fiPlkl rJ? i' jivi hikers. ' r- -; 1.1. fj ffflmff 4-- f H-- lr fl H f
The Crawdad Alliance members, careful not to A . y tj ? M; 4' : t "-
- &' X Uil -
cross onto Union Electric's property, had a mis- - ? , - j f M& zfi-- t i - - ." ' tTi" i
sion in mind: prevent the plant's 1984 opening and r'; U HiP' ! ', - " s ? " iY
keep public attention focused on the plant By fc'Q ( ffffif ; E Hh p ,-- ' fff 1 $ fU'v51,
SSUPPORTERS, Pafl. 8A fWlmi3l? MM
Protestors who marched Sunday to rtfHajffl& t V' P( ' f ff' .
Uniop Electric's Callaway Nuclear ,--
m tfTfa&' M& UZ& liWfji I
Plant are dwarfed by the facility. "' fjpH4M$ Vi"' "
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Lynne Butttnwonh
Snow skips Columbia;
falls north, south, east
By Kathy George
Mlssourlan te writer
Columbia was a blip away on the
radar screen from a storm that
dumped 18 inches of snow on Iowa. -
To endure the relatively mild
showers and chills mid- Misso- uri had
over the weekend was to rest in a
veritable hurricane's eye. Moisture
from the Gulf combined with mois-ture
from the Great Lakes to wreak
havoc with states to the north, south
and east, according to the National
Weather Service.
The collision of the moisture- lade- n
fronts created a storm path like that
of a hurricane, a spokesman ex-plained.
Most of the storm's activity
took place on the outskirts rather
than in the center.
While Columbians earned umbrel-las,
many Iowans earned lanterns.
The weekend snowstorm npped pow-er
lines in Des Moines and left 2,500
people without power Monday.
The same storm brought heavy
snow to areas from northern Missou-- n
to the Great Lakes. Up to 8 inches
of snow was reported in South Dako-ta,
Minnesota and Wisconsin. Up to 2
feet of snow that fell in Nebraska
over the weekend had melted by
Monday evening, the weather serv-ice
said
Despite unseasonable weather in
many parts of the nation, the weath-er
service says the temperatures
and the precipitation in Columbia
over the weekend were normal for
this time of year. Snow or sleet
would have been unusual but not
ram.
That normal trend is expected to
extend through next weekend, when
children hunting Easter eggs may
have to slog through mud to find
them. The weatherman sees more
storm clouds on the horizon.
The weather service expects tem-peratures
to climb into the 60s by
Fnday, but also predicts moderate
to heavy thundersnowers Fnday and
a slight cooling to the upper 40s and
mid 50s this weekend
The Gulf low- pressu- re system,
powered by winds up to 50 mph, cre-ated
hail and light thundershowers
in some Gulf coast states over the
weekend, then gained strength in
Missoun when it tangled with a mo-ist
air mass extending south from
the Great Lakes The resulting
storm spun through Ai kansas, Ten-nessee
and Kentucky, where it
dumped hail and some rain before
gradually losing strength on its way
to the East Coast
But the harshest weather was gen-erated
by a separate storm in the
Northeast, where up to 15 inches of
snow spread from Pennsylvania to
New England In New York, Fulton
County shemff's deputies helped
motonsts negotiate slippery, un- plow- ed
secondary roads. Hazardous
conditions hampered drivers in
many other regions, and schools
were closed in a number of commu-nities
Monday
Political novice writes himself
into council's Sixth Ward race
By Michael Kodas
Mlssourlan staff writer
Chuck Carpenter went to the County--
City Building Monday to file his
absentee ballot and wound up a can-didate
for City Council.
" I j'ust couldn't see Matt McCor- mic- k
running without opposition,"
explains Carpenter, who lives at 1710
Riback Road. " Besides, I didn't
want to vote for him."
So Carpenter, a 26- year--
old mem-ber
of the Boone County Prosecuting
Attorney's staff, voted for himself.
But first he had to file as an offi-cial
write- i- n candidate for the Sixth
Ward council seat.
The move caught incumbent Mc- Cormi- ck
off guard. In fact, McCor- mic- k
was in the process of announc-ing
his victory celebration when he
learned he no longer was a shoe- i- n.
He announced Monday that the com-bination
victory partyfund- raise- r
will be Thursday five days prior to
the election.
Though Carpenter acknowledges
his candidacy began as a whim, he
says he plans a serious campaign.
He expects his first move to be a
campaign fund- rais- er expenses
should be modest, he says, since the
election is only a week away.
His platform is equally modest
Carpenter's only promise so far is to
communicate better with constitu-ents
in his ward: " I will just rep-resent
the ward it's my constitu-ents
who will make the decisions "
That's more than his opponent
ever did, he charges.
" In the two years McCormick has
been my councilman I have never
heard from turn," complains Car-penter.
" I've never even received a
form latter."
Carpenter admits he hasn't been
paying close attention to the council
race and was surprised to discover
that his representative was unop-posed.
Carpenter says his only pre-vious
political expenence has consis-ted
of voting every time he has been
eligible.
McCormick says it's impossible to
guage whether Carpenter represents
a major threat.
" If he is a serious candidate,"
says McCormick, " I will have to ap
proach the campaign much more ag-gressively.
Because Carpenter has not had a
chance to participate in previous
campaign interviews, McCormick
says he will encourage the local me-dia
to sponsor a forum where he and
Carpenter debate issues.
McCormick says plans for his vic-tory
celebration will not be affected
by the fact that he now finds himself
in a race. The party will proceed as
scheduled at The Cinema Theatre in
the Broadway Shopping Center at
6.45 p. m. Thursday.
Steve Bennett, director of elec-tions,
said the addition of the wnte-- m
candidate will create a little extra
work for his staff as well as for
voters interested in supporting Car-penter.
Carpenter's name will not
appear on the ballot, those voting for
him will have to pnnt his name on
the line available for write- in- s under
the Sixth Ward heading. While
counting ballots, judges will have to
separate those with write- in- s and
then count the wnte- in- s by hand
while other ballots are tabulated by
computer.
Antonio: too many people get free legal aid
By Karen Bali
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Missouri
public defenders make lousy bill col-lectors,
according to State Auditor
James Antonio.
In a report released Monday, Anto-nio
said public defenders collected
less than 1 percent of their costs
from the indigents they defended
last year. And an audit of the Mis-souri
pubhc defender system re-vealed
that only half of the state's 41
judicial circuits recovered any mon-ey
at all from those receiving taxpay-er-
supported defense. A mere
$ 28,955 or 0.7 percent of the
state system's $ 4-- 5 million budget
wasrecovered in fiscal 1982.
Antonio urged the Public Defender
Commission, the body that oversees
the activities of pubhc defenders, to
study the state's recovery process
and establish stricter guidelines for
determining whether those seeking
the service really need it. A 1981 re-port
by Antonio's office revealed
that 19 percent of Missourians who
get free defense probably could pay
State seeks stricter guidelines
part of the costs.
Public defenders agree that abuse
of the system is commonplace but
say it's not their responsibhty to pur-sue
those who don't pay their bills.
" What are we supposed to do,"
wonders Boone County Public De-fender
David Strauss, " turn around
and sue our clients?" Strauss, who
collected .9 percent $ 785 of his
office's costs last year, isn't im-pressed
by Antonio's audit. Public
defenders should not be blamed for
problems inherent in the system, he
said.
Strauss says public defenders
don't have the time or resources to
step up collections or investigate cli-ents'
finances. It takes money to
save money, he said. Public defend-ers
already are swamped, he adds,
and don't have the money to hire
more help.
Antonio's audit suggests public de-fenders
could recover the costs if
they really wanted to since 1978, it
noted, four of the state's 41 circuits
collected 68 percent of the total
amount recovered. Antonio has
asked the commission to examine
why 14 other circuits were unsuc-cessful
in recovering any of their
costs.
" We want public defenders to look
more closely at their clients, to see if
they're really broke," said Ken Mac- Nevi- n,
Antonio's public information
officer. " We don't want to give peo-ple
free defense who aren't entitled
to it."
Last year the state revised its sys-tem
for providing legal aid to indi-gent
defendants. The objective was
to increase cost recovery by forcing
defendants to reimburse the com-mission
if they became financially
able.
Using the new system, coupled
with one Antonio would like to see
other circuits adopt, Greene County
collected nearly 28 percent of its pub- h- e
defender's costs in 1982. Many
Springfield defendants were told that
unless they paid their defense bills
after tnal, they would not be eligible
for parole or probation.
Yet Ty Gaither, the public defend-er
responsible for that impressive
recovery rate, quit last year. He
complained he was fed up with the
system.
" I resigned because I didn't feel I
could maintain doing an adequate
job for my clients with the resources
I was given," says Gaither. He
agrees with Strauss' contention that
it's not a public defender's job to col-lect
payments from clients.
Antonio, however, believes that if
public defenders are to successfully
win larger appropriations, they're
going to have to demonstrate aggres-siveness
in collecting.
" The commission has taken a
strong interest in obtaining addition-al
funding through the appropria-tions
process for the public defender
system," Antonio said in the audit.
" We believe the commission should
take as strong an interest in cost re-covery,
where an improved track re-cord
could provide a strong argu-ment
for additional appropriations."
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Clogged up
Cars damaged with drain cleaner
By Jim Wakeham
Mlssourlan staM writer
Four Columbia residents had a
rude awakening Sunday when
they found someone had splashed
dram cleaner on their cars and
tried to pour it into several gas
tanks.
Pohce said the incidents oc-curred
on Woodside Dnve, Way-side
Drive and Lawnndge Court,
all near Blue Ridge Elementary
School in northern Columbia.
Maj. William Morgan said po-lice
believe the same person is re-sponsible
for the incidents but po-hce
have no suspects.
Bruce A. Clark, 3609 Woodside
Dnve, had two cars vandalized.
The substance, police believe it
was Drano, a highly caustic
household dram cleaner was
poured on the hood and top of one
of his cars. The vandals broke a
rear window louvre and scratch
ed an obscenity into the vinyl top
of his second car in addition to
splashing it with dram cleaner.
Tracy L. Edwards, 211 N
Garth Ave , had parked his car at
3719 Wayside Dnve and found the
substance had been poured on his
car and damaged the paint
Lloyd S Robinson, 3711 Wood- sid- e
Dnve, told pohce someone
had tried to pour drain cleaner
into the gas tank.
The vandals did the same to Ke-vin
Ridgeway's car at 2916 Lawn-ndge
Court, but he reported that
some of the drain cleaner may
have gotten into the tank
Ed Kaiser, a University chem-istry
professor, said pouring
drain cleaner in the tanks pre-sented
no danger of explosion be-cause
gasoline and drain cleaner
do not react and the drain cleaner
probably would settle to the bot-tom.
He said the cleaner probably
would clog a carburetor.
School board race one of salesmanship
By W. Kevin Armstrong
Mlssourlan staff writer
This year's Columbia Board of Education
candidates aren't the mud- slingi- ng cam-paigners
who wage verbal wars of criticism on
their opponents in an attempt to induce voter
support
All three candidates are fighting this battle
in the trenches, going door to door and relying
on the support of personal friends and neigh-bors.
As a result, the April 5 election lacks the col-or
and intensity of past campaigns that have
beenfoughtout in the open.
Each candidate has a strong background in
education all hold doctoral degrees from the
University and have several years of experi-ence
on local school boards.
Charles " Bud" Middleton and Robert Harris
are battling to retain their seats on the board
while former Midway Heights Board of Educa-tion
member Gary Hughes is attempting to un-seat
one of the incumbents.
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Hughes, a nuclear engineer, lost his school
board seat last June when the Midway Heights
school district was annexed into the Columbia
district He would like to regain his part in set-ting
local education policies.
Harris faces his first review by voters since
being elected in 1980. Middleton is seeking his
third three- yea- r term, having been approved
by voters in 1977 and 1980.
School board members' terms are stag-gered,
requiring two of the six members to
face voter approval every year.
Middleton is promising voters that he'll work
to improve academic standards if re- elect- ed.
" High academic standards must always be the
first priority," he says.
He built his past two campaigns on that issue
and he's hoping voters will take the message to
heart again.
Harris, a pediatrician, says hell continue to
focus on expanding drug and education pro-grams
along with special courses for gifted
students.
Hughes is campaigning on the district's need
for additional teaching on modem technology.
Upgrading math and science requirements for
high school graduation and introducing com-puters
into the classroom on a larger scale are
two projects he'll work on if elected, he says.
The first question facing the candidates, if
elected, is next year's teachers' salaries.
Teachers have asked for an 18 percent in-crease
over this year's $ 17,556 average salary.
Middleton says the request is unrealistic in
terms of the funds available, but he says he'll
do his best in making the salanes more com- peti- ve
with other school districts.
Budget reallocations shouldn't be necessary
to raise the salaries, says Harris, who
anchored his last campaign on the same issue.
Like his opponents, however, he refuses to say
what the teachers can expect
Hughes says additional revenue from state
and local taxes would be necessary if teachers
)
receive anywhere near 18 percent raises, but a
raise would definitely be forthcoming if he's
elected, he says.
The candidates are further apart on other is-sues.
Using drug- sniffi- ng dogs in schools to help
fight the problems of drug abuse would be an
effective deterrent Hughes believes.
Harris and Middleton disagree.
It would have a negative influence on stu-dents
and only disrupt the learning environ
ment, Middleton contends.
Harris says that it wouldn't help relieve the
problem of substance abuse in schools. Pre-ventive
programs would be more beneficial, he
says.
On the issue of corporal punishment in
schools, Harris stands alone.
" Violence breeds violence," he savs.
Hughes and Middleton both support spank-ings
in schools. Both candidates believe it
should be available as an option to principals
because some children don't respond to any-thing
else.

ill.- - & ' ' l u
75th Year No. 167 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, March 29, 1983 2 Sections - 14 Pages 25 Cents
Wtill -
"" l
Mission impossible? MSlu 4fre s ,
Alliance members want to pull plug fiK' 7 i
on the Callaway nuclear power plant WJ$ m sMl
We are the Crawdada strong l& Hal'l P$ M l!
And fight for right against the plight tifrcfll Kffi Of cancer and the nuclear waste. aaBHBa from a Crawdad Alliance song nffiBSfffBliroSw
By Ranee Tawa and Betsy Krause BjbSHIHmWBH
Valiant Yates proudly sang these words after marching 2Vi miles HBmHMBHfflpBP
to her destination in front of the looming cooling tower of the Calla-- ggBBjgggpiMmlmW
way County nuclear power plant. The 68- year-- old Fulton woman MHfcMMBywS
fears radiation from the plant will contaminate her cattle's fiSHCTP Daniel Groveman, 14, of Columbia, says nuclear power is dan-- H88Ba
gerous and that he and his peers should learn about it at school. mmM He joined other hikers in the bitter winds and trudged the last Jpp five miles of the 15- mi- le walk from Fulton to the plant SBSS1' With about 40 others hiking from Columbia, St. Louis and lPii Fulton, Mrs. Yates and Daniel had their reasons for following MumMMW
an alliance member carrying an American flag Sunday. A MMMMwi bed- she- et sign reading " NO NUKES" and the flag signified WFWl " The flag was brought with us because some people may TN- W- M
be confused about how we feel about our country," said the jtl $ j r0,0iM'.--
flag bearer, Byron Clemens, 31, of St. Louis. " Personally, j?;- - j 4Mwf?' I feel this is one of the most patriotic things we can do. We $ ff, W 7 3' MMM are concerned about protecting the health of the people , J, v r jJ fffMM- - J
andtte environment" jl? fSI- pfc-: About 10 patrol cars from the Missouri State Highway -- T'tt- M tWfT' Patrol and CaUaway County Sheriff's office staked out ; .- W- ' JfTteiiii'
the hikers' route. There appeared to be as many po- - p , ft ;' ffi ' ifflfej2f Sfo HJ- - & yH- 47r- f:
hcemen and Union Electric security guards as r t i'j Yw$ fiPlkl rJ? i' jivi hikers. ' r- -; 1.1. fj ffflmff 4-- f H-- lr fl H f
The Crawdad Alliance members, careful not to A . y tj ? M; 4' : t "-
- &' X Uil -
cross onto Union Electric's property, had a mis- - ? , - j f M& zfi-- t i - - ." ' tTi" i
sion in mind: prevent the plant's 1984 opening and r'; U HiP' ! ', - " s ? " iY
keep public attention focused on the plant By fc'Q ( ffffif ; E Hh p ,-- ' fff 1 $ fU'v51,
SSUPPORTERS, Pafl. 8A fWlmi3l? MM
Protestors who marched Sunday to rtfHajffl& t V' P( ' f ff' .
Uniop Electric's Callaway Nuclear ,--
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Plant are dwarfed by the facility. "' fjpH4M$ Vi"' "
i'i"''- r- v
Lynne Butttnwonh
Snow skips Columbia;
falls north, south, east
By Kathy George
Mlssourlan te writer
Columbia was a blip away on the
radar screen from a storm that
dumped 18 inches of snow on Iowa. -
To endure the relatively mild
showers and chills mid- Misso- uri had
over the weekend was to rest in a
veritable hurricane's eye. Moisture
from the Gulf combined with mois-ture
from the Great Lakes to wreak
havoc with states to the north, south
and east, according to the National
Weather Service.
The collision of the moisture- lade- n
fronts created a storm path like that
of a hurricane, a spokesman ex-plained.
Most of the storm's activity
took place on the outskirts rather
than in the center.
While Columbians earned umbrel-las,
many Iowans earned lanterns.
The weekend snowstorm npped pow-er
lines in Des Moines and left 2,500
people without power Monday.
The same storm brought heavy
snow to areas from northern Missou-- n
to the Great Lakes. Up to 8 inches
of snow was reported in South Dako-ta,
Minnesota and Wisconsin. Up to 2
feet of snow that fell in Nebraska
over the weekend had melted by
Monday evening, the weather serv-ice
said
Despite unseasonable weather in
many parts of the nation, the weath-er
service says the temperatures
and the precipitation in Columbia
over the weekend were normal for
this time of year. Snow or sleet
would have been unusual but not
ram.
That normal trend is expected to
extend through next weekend, when
children hunting Easter eggs may
have to slog through mud to find
them. The weatherman sees more
storm clouds on the horizon.
The weather service expects tem-peratures
to climb into the 60s by
Fnday, but also predicts moderate
to heavy thundersnowers Fnday and
a slight cooling to the upper 40s and
mid 50s this weekend
The Gulf low- pressu- re system,
powered by winds up to 50 mph, cre-ated
hail and light thundershowers
in some Gulf coast states over the
weekend, then gained strength in
Missoun when it tangled with a mo-ist
air mass extending south from
the Great Lakes The resulting
storm spun through Ai kansas, Ten-nessee
and Kentucky, where it
dumped hail and some rain before
gradually losing strength on its way
to the East Coast
But the harshest weather was gen-erated
by a separate storm in the
Northeast, where up to 15 inches of
snow spread from Pennsylvania to
New England In New York, Fulton
County shemff's deputies helped
motonsts negotiate slippery, un- plow- ed
secondary roads. Hazardous
conditions hampered drivers in
many other regions, and schools
were closed in a number of commu-nities
Monday
Political novice writes himself
into council's Sixth Ward race
By Michael Kodas
Mlssourlan staff writer
Chuck Carpenter went to the County--
City Building Monday to file his
absentee ballot and wound up a can-didate
for City Council.
" I j'ust couldn't see Matt McCor- mic- k
running without opposition,"
explains Carpenter, who lives at 1710
Riback Road. " Besides, I didn't
want to vote for him."
So Carpenter, a 26- year--
old mem-ber
of the Boone County Prosecuting
Attorney's staff, voted for himself.
But first he had to file as an offi-cial
write- i- n candidate for the Sixth
Ward council seat.
The move caught incumbent Mc- Cormi- ck
off guard. In fact, McCor- mic- k
was in the process of announc-ing
his victory celebration when he
learned he no longer was a shoe- i- n.
He announced Monday that the com-bination
victory partyfund- raise- r
will be Thursday five days prior to
the election.
Though Carpenter acknowledges
his candidacy began as a whim, he
says he plans a serious campaign.
He expects his first move to be a
campaign fund- rais- er expenses
should be modest, he says, since the
election is only a week away.
His platform is equally modest
Carpenter's only promise so far is to
communicate better with constitu-ents
in his ward: " I will just rep-resent
the ward it's my constitu-ents
who will make the decisions "
That's more than his opponent
ever did, he charges.
" In the two years McCormick has
been my councilman I have never
heard from turn," complains Car-penter.
" I've never even received a
form latter."
Carpenter admits he hasn't been
paying close attention to the council
race and was surprised to discover
that his representative was unop-posed.
Carpenter says his only pre-vious
political expenence has consis-ted
of voting every time he has been
eligible.
McCormick says it's impossible to
guage whether Carpenter represents
a major threat.
" If he is a serious candidate,"
says McCormick, " I will have to ap
proach the campaign much more ag-gressively.
Because Carpenter has not had a
chance to participate in previous
campaign interviews, McCormick
says he will encourage the local me-dia
to sponsor a forum where he and
Carpenter debate issues.
McCormick says plans for his vic-tory
celebration will not be affected
by the fact that he now finds himself
in a race. The party will proceed as
scheduled at The Cinema Theatre in
the Broadway Shopping Center at
6.45 p. m. Thursday.
Steve Bennett, director of elec-tions,
said the addition of the wnte-- m
candidate will create a little extra
work for his staff as well as for
voters interested in supporting Car-penter.
Carpenter's name will not
appear on the ballot, those voting for
him will have to pnnt his name on
the line available for write- in- s under
the Sixth Ward heading. While
counting ballots, judges will have to
separate those with write- in- s and
then count the wnte- in- s by hand
while other ballots are tabulated by
computer.
Antonio: too many people get free legal aid
By Karen Bali
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Missouri
public defenders make lousy bill col-lectors,
according to State Auditor
James Antonio.
In a report released Monday, Anto-nio
said public defenders collected
less than 1 percent of their costs
from the indigents they defended
last year. And an audit of the Mis-souri
pubhc defender system re-vealed
that only half of the state's 41
judicial circuits recovered any mon-ey
at all from those receiving taxpay-er-
supported defense. A mere
$ 28,955 or 0.7 percent of the
state system's $ 4-- 5 million budget
wasrecovered in fiscal 1982.
Antonio urged the Public Defender
Commission, the body that oversees
the activities of pubhc defenders, to
study the state's recovery process
and establish stricter guidelines for
determining whether those seeking
the service really need it. A 1981 re-port
by Antonio's office revealed
that 19 percent of Missourians who
get free defense probably could pay
State seeks stricter guidelines
part of the costs.
Public defenders agree that abuse
of the system is commonplace but
say it's not their responsibhty to pur-sue
those who don't pay their bills.
" What are we supposed to do,"
wonders Boone County Public De-fender
David Strauss, " turn around
and sue our clients?" Strauss, who
collected .9 percent $ 785 of his
office's costs last year, isn't im-pressed
by Antonio's audit. Public
defenders should not be blamed for
problems inherent in the system, he
said.
Strauss says public defenders
don't have the time or resources to
step up collections or investigate cli-ents'
finances. It takes money to
save money, he said. Public defend-ers
already are swamped, he adds,
and don't have the money to hire
more help.
Antonio's audit suggests public de-fenders
could recover the costs if
they really wanted to since 1978, it
noted, four of the state's 41 circuits
collected 68 percent of the total
amount recovered. Antonio has
asked the commission to examine
why 14 other circuits were unsuc-cessful
in recovering any of their
costs.
" We want public defenders to look
more closely at their clients, to see if
they're really broke," said Ken Mac- Nevi- n,
Antonio's public information
officer. " We don't want to give peo-ple
free defense who aren't entitled
to it."
Last year the state revised its sys-tem
for providing legal aid to indi-gent
defendants. The objective was
to increase cost recovery by forcing
defendants to reimburse the com-mission
if they became financially
able.
Using the new system, coupled
with one Antonio would like to see
other circuits adopt, Greene County
collected nearly 28 percent of its pub- h- e
defender's costs in 1982. Many
Springfield defendants were told that
unless they paid their defense bills
after tnal, they would not be eligible
for parole or probation.
Yet Ty Gaither, the public defend-er
responsible for that impressive
recovery rate, quit last year. He
complained he was fed up with the
system.
" I resigned because I didn't feel I
could maintain doing an adequate
job for my clients with the resources
I was given," says Gaither. He
agrees with Strauss' contention that
it's not a public defender's job to col-lect
payments from clients.
Antonio, however, believes that if
public defenders are to successfully
win larger appropriations, they're
going to have to demonstrate aggres-siveness
in collecting.
" The commission has taken a
strong interest in obtaining addition-al
funding through the appropria-tions
process for the public defender
system," Antonio said in the audit.
" We believe the commission should
take as strong an interest in cost re-covery,
where an improved track re-cord
could provide a strong argu-ment
for additional appropriations."
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Clogged up
Cars damaged with drain cleaner
By Jim Wakeham
Mlssourlan staM writer
Four Columbia residents had a
rude awakening Sunday when
they found someone had splashed
dram cleaner on their cars and
tried to pour it into several gas
tanks.
Pohce said the incidents oc-curred
on Woodside Dnve, Way-side
Drive and Lawnndge Court,
all near Blue Ridge Elementary
School in northern Columbia.
Maj. William Morgan said po-lice
believe the same person is re-sponsible
for the incidents but po-hce
have no suspects.
Bruce A. Clark, 3609 Woodside
Dnve, had two cars vandalized.
The substance, police believe it
was Drano, a highly caustic
household dram cleaner was
poured on the hood and top of one
of his cars. The vandals broke a
rear window louvre and scratch
ed an obscenity into the vinyl top
of his second car in addition to
splashing it with dram cleaner.
Tracy L. Edwards, 211 N
Garth Ave , had parked his car at
3719 Wayside Dnve and found the
substance had been poured on his
car and damaged the paint
Lloyd S Robinson, 3711 Wood- sid- e
Dnve, told pohce someone
had tried to pour drain cleaner
into the gas tank.
The vandals did the same to Ke-vin
Ridgeway's car at 2916 Lawn-ndge
Court, but he reported that
some of the drain cleaner may
have gotten into the tank
Ed Kaiser, a University chem-istry
professor, said pouring
drain cleaner in the tanks pre-sented
no danger of explosion be-cause
gasoline and drain cleaner
do not react and the drain cleaner
probably would settle to the bot-tom.
He said the cleaner probably
would clog a carburetor.
School board race one of salesmanship
By W. Kevin Armstrong
Mlssourlan staff writer
This year's Columbia Board of Education
candidates aren't the mud- slingi- ng cam-paigners
who wage verbal wars of criticism on
their opponents in an attempt to induce voter
support
All three candidates are fighting this battle
in the trenches, going door to door and relying
on the support of personal friends and neigh-bors.
As a result, the April 5 election lacks the col-or
and intensity of past campaigns that have
beenfoughtout in the open.
Each candidate has a strong background in
education all hold doctoral degrees from the
University and have several years of experi-ence
on local school boards.
Charles " Bud" Middleton and Robert Harris
are battling to retain their seats on the board
while former Midway Heights Board of Educa-tion
member Gary Hughes is attempting to un-seat
one of the incumbents.
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Hughes, a nuclear engineer, lost his school
board seat last June when the Midway Heights
school district was annexed into the Columbia
district He would like to regain his part in set-ting
local education policies.
Harris faces his first review by voters since
being elected in 1980. Middleton is seeking his
third three- yea- r term, having been approved
by voters in 1977 and 1980.
School board members' terms are stag-gered,
requiring two of the six members to
face voter approval every year.
Middleton is promising voters that he'll work
to improve academic standards if re- elect- ed.
" High academic standards must always be the
first priority," he says.
He built his past two campaigns on that issue
and he's hoping voters will take the message to
heart again.
Harris, a pediatrician, says hell continue to
focus on expanding drug and education pro-grams
along with special courses for gifted
students.
Hughes is campaigning on the district's need
for additional teaching on modem technology.
Upgrading math and science requirements for
high school graduation and introducing com-puters
into the classroom on a larger scale are
two projects he'll work on if elected, he says.
The first question facing the candidates, if
elected, is next year's teachers' salaries.
Teachers have asked for an 18 percent in-crease
over this year's $ 17,556 average salary.
Middleton says the request is unrealistic in
terms of the funds available, but he says he'll
do his best in making the salanes more com- peti- ve
with other school districts.
Budget reallocations shouldn't be necessary
to raise the salaries, says Harris, who
anchored his last campaign on the same issue.
Like his opponents, however, he refuses to say
what the teachers can expect
Hughes says additional revenue from state
and local taxes would be necessary if teachers
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receive anywhere near 18 percent raises, but a
raise would definitely be forthcoming if he's
elected, he says.
The candidates are further apart on other is-sues.
Using drug- sniffi- ng dogs in schools to help
fight the problems of drug abuse would be an
effective deterrent Hughes believes.
Harris and Middleton disagree.
It would have a negative influence on stu-dents
and only disrupt the learning environ
ment, Middleton contends.
Harris says that it wouldn't help relieve the
problem of substance abuse in schools. Pre-ventive
programs would be more beneficial, he
says.
On the issue of corporal punishment in
schools, Harris stands alone.
" Violence breeds violence," he savs.
Hughes and Middleton both support spank-ings
in schools. Both candidates believe it
should be available as an option to principals
because some children don't respond to any-thing
else.